Dean Ornish
Every day, people use Google to learn more about an illness, drug or a treatment, or simply to research a condition or diagnosis. As part of an initiative to make its search results more medically relevant and more helpful to users, Google has announced the formation of a health advisory council, made up of healthcare experts from provider organizations, consumer and disease-based groups, physician-based organizations, research institutions, healthcare policy foundations - and other fields. The mission of the Google Health Advisory Council is broadly to help Google better understand the problems consumers and providers face and to offer feedback on product ideas and development.
Among the 22 initial members of the advisory council are three representatives from the UCSF faculty, more than from any other single institution and including the council's first chair, Dean Ornish, MD, along with David Kessler, MD and Robert Wachter, MD.
Ornish, a clinical professor of medicine at UCSF, is founder, president and director of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute. Kessler, a former FDA commissioner, is vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine at UCSF. Wachter is professor of medicine and associate chairman of the Department of Medicine at UCSF, and chief of the medical service at UCSF Medical Center.
Related links:
New Advisory Group on Health
The Official Google Blog, June 27, 2007
